One couple’s clever Halloween makeover of their home in Illinois has captivated viewers on social media.
Images of the exterior of the Chicago home were featured in a Reddit post shared under the username u/LadyMormont00 by Sia Cooper, who is an artist. The post has amassed almost 100,000 upvotes since it was posted on October 1.
The post is titled: “OC—Our house got a Halloween Makeover.” The pictures show the exterior of the home by day and night. The exterior forms the shape of a face, featuring eyes and an open mouth with spiky teeth, which were made using flexible sheet metal, the poster told Newsweek. The stairs in front of the house extend downward, giving the illusion of a tongue sticking out of the mouth. The façade of the home is lit up in red lighting at night.
Cooper and her husband, Mike, who is a firefighter, are in their 40s and live in Chicago with their three kids.
A year or two earlier, Cooper saw a post where someone had “turned their garage into a monster,” and she thought, “Wow, our house would actually be perfect for something like this,’” she said.
“I like to be creative and original, and I wanted our decor to work with the unique architecture of our house, so I sketched out a few designs and we picked this one,” Cooper said, adding that “basically we wanted something unique, clever, and somewhat minimalist.”
“My husband figured out what materials would work best,” Cooper said, noting that “wood was too heavy, so we went with a very flexible sheet metal.” Her husband used “tin snips to cut the metal for the teeth and eyes, then primed and spray-painted them accordingly.”
Cooper said: “The house itself does most of the work for us. We’re planning on adding a forked tongue next year to complete the look.”
‘Very Cool’
Viewers on Reddit were blown away by the Halloween-themed home in the viral post.
U/oasis48 wrote, “That’s pretty clever. Nice job,” while u/zzyzx_pazuzu simply said: “Very cool.”
U/TreemanTheGuy noted: “This is so much better than the giant skeletons and endless inflatable things.”
U/peterpaapan was equally impressed, noting: “First off, what an amazing house and architecture. Secondly, fantastically imaginative and even more stunningly executed.”
“I never thought I would see the day where I would see a house and think, damn that house looks great with teeth!” commented u/Tablefor1please9987.
“WOW! I love everything about this! Absolutely gorgeous house,” wrote u/NightOwlsUnite.
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